THE WEATHER
PARTLY CLOUDY with Mat
tered showers f thunder thaw,
ers tonight, Saturday. Not M
wum. Law tonifht, SI; hit.
Saturday, IS.
Bids Called for
First East Unit
Of Expressway
Grading From River
To Gervais Up for
Contract Sept. 24
By JAMES D. OLSON
Bidi for the first major work
en the Willamette river-Hays-vllle
section of the new four-
lane Fortland-Salem $ll,6t,
expressway, win be re
ceived by the state highway
commission at its September
24-25 meeting in Portland, B.
H. Baldock, sUte highway en
fineer, said Friday.
This first large job will be
grading of the new expressway
from the river to Gervais at an
estimated cost of $935,000.
At the next January meeting
bids will be called for grad-
ing the section of the road from
Gervais to Haysville at an es
timated cost of $630,000.
Paving Bids in May
Bids for paving the entire
expressway from the Willam
ette river to Haysville will be
called by the commission at its
May meeting, a project estimat
ed to cost $2,870,000.
Contract for construction of
a grade separation structure on
the expressway, just east of the
Wilsonvllle bridge, estimated
to cost $700,000 will be award
ed at the March meeting while
bids for construction of anoth
er grade crossing structure at
Haysville, estimated to cost
$735,000 will be received by
the commission at the April
meeting. -
West Portion Contracted
All work on the expressway
from the Willamette river to
Boonei Ferry road is under
contract with the exception of
two grade separation struc
tures, bids on whirh will be
called for at the ne u meeting
of the commission.
(Continued on Pte It, Column ()
150 Fires in
Calif. Woods
San Francisco VP) More
- than 150 small, troublesome
forest fires, ignited by electri
cal storms, have forced some
500 state and U. S. Forest
Service firefighters to man fire
lines in California's northwest
coastal mountains.
Working through the night,
hundreds of fighters attempt
ed to control the scattered
blazes. But at Eureka it was
reported that 100 fires still
raged out of control.
The weather bureau forecast
little temperature change in
the 100-degree, low humidity
weather in the hot, dry forests.
Scattered clouds and possible
showers and thunderstorms
were also predicted.
In the inaccessible lower
Trinity district, about 40 miles
east of Eureka, six U. S. Forest
Service "smoke jumpers"
flown from Oregon para
chuted late Thursday to fight
the largest uncontrolled fire.
It had scorced 100 acres.
Half of 42 fires Jn Humboldt
and Mendocino County state
forests were still out of control,
according to Bert Lewis, state
fire dispatcher at Eureka.
Beer Driver's Hunch
Saves Him From Slide
Cle Elum, Wash. VP) A
Baker, Ore., beer truck driver
Friday gave credit to "one of
those hunches" for saving his
life in a Snnqualmie Pass slide
The slide killed the driver :
of another truck, a
gasoline
tanker, and demolished the
Baker driver's vehicle after
he jumped out and ran.
"I saw a little of it and
heard the rest of it," said John
Hayfield, 28-year-old veteran
of four years at the wheel.
"I don't know why I jump
ed and ran. It was just one
of those hunches."
He said the roar above him
was a dull and ominous one.
As 'he fled he didn't know how
close the rocks came to his
heels; he had more important
business ahead than he did in
looking back.
SEEK TV FOR EUGENE
Washington VP) Television
Air Waves, Inc., Eugene, Ore.,
applied to the Federal Com
munications Commission Wed
nesday for channel 26 at Eu
gene. The company proposes to
locate a transmitter atop Spen
cer Butte at Eugene.
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NEW SENATOR
Robert W. Upton, 69-year-old
Concord, N.H. law
yer, was appointed today
to the U.S. Senate seat va
cated by the recent death
of veteran G.O.P. Sen.
Charles W. Tobey. Upton,
a Republican, will serve un
til January, 1955.
Lawyer to Be
f J. H. Senator
Concord, N.H. VP) Gov.
Hugh Gregg (R.) Friday ap
pointed Robert W. Upton, 69-year-old
Concord lawyer to
the U.S. Senate seat vacated
by the recent death of veteran
Sen. Charles W. Tobey (R.).
Upton, a republican, will
serve until January, 1955. The
remaining two years of Tobey's
term wiU be filled in the 1954
election.
A full' six year term candi
date also will be chosen in that
election as Sen. Styles Bridges'
term expires in January, 1955.
It will be the second time in
New Hampshire history that
the state elected two senators
in the same election.
Upton first became active in
new Hampshire politics in 1911
when he was elected to the
state House of Representatives.
Serving as delegate to the
state constitutional convention
of 1918, 1930, 1938 and 1948,
Uptou also was chairman of the
GOP State Committee in 1936
and vice chairman from that
year through 1952.
Six New Fires,
More Feared
Six new fires broke out
Thursday in forest lands com.
ing under the jurisdiction of
the state forestry department
and there was a possibility that
others might have been started
in the Klamath Falls area,
where a severe lightning storm
was reported.
I At the time that forestry re
presentatives in the Klamath
reported to the depart
ment at 7 o'clock Thursday
night there was one lightning
fire and the storm was In full
force.
Three of the six fires report
ed in the state were in north
west Oregon with two in Clat
sop county and one in Tilla
mook county. Linn county had
one fire and Western Lane dis
trict had one.
There was still extreme fire
danger, though strong winds
're "'lhe"' ""i"?.?.?"1
t(jere wefe u t wmdf lrom
that direction.
Federal Land Grabs to
Be Vigorously Opposed
Representatives of the Inter
state Association of Public
Land Counties, meeting in an
nual session in Salem Friday,
discussed mutual problems
and while .doing so, hinted In
no uncertain terms that con
tinued land' grabs of Uncle
Sam will be bitterly fought.
Not all of the 11 states af
filiated with the association
were represented but, alto
gether there were some 45
county commissioners, super
visors and other officials at
the opening session held at
the Senator hotel.
With Lester Coffin of Sun
nyvale, Calif., president, in
charge, the roll of states was
called and reports given by
delegate. All expressed con
cert over the encroachments
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Free, Tell of
Red Cruellies
Eyewitness Accounts
Of Death March
Atrocities Given
By LEROY HANSEN
Panmunjom, Korea lt
American prisoners came back
to freedom today with sicken
ing reports of Communist bes
tiality.
Eighty-four Americans went
through freedom gate along
with one Canadian and 324
other Allied soldiers. Some of
the Americans were listed as
'sick" but they were able to
walk.
Their liberation on the 10th
day of -"Operation Big Switch'
brought the total of United Na
tions servicemen released by
the Communists to 8,411, ln
eluding 907 Americans.
Shocking Brutality
Some of them gave eyewit
ness accounts of Red brutality
that shocked newsmen and oth
er observers who have become
accustomed to hearing reports
of mass atrocities such as the
1950 death march.
Pfc. Charles J. Wolfe, 23,
Wallace, W. Va., said" Commu
nist guards bayoneted and beat
with rifle butts an American
prisoner who had become In'
sane.
Wolfe, captured In July of
1950 at Taejon alon' with Maj.
Gen. Willi im F. Dean, said the
man was bayoneted three times
in the legs and dragged off to
regimental headquarters where
he was brought out for daily
public beatings.
(Continued on Pir I, Column ()
Linn CIO OKs
Old Pay Rate
Lebanon, Ore. W CIO
Woodworkers voted here and
at Sweet Home Thursday
night , to accept the old con
tract and return to work with
out pay increases.
They also decided to ask
employers Friday to sign a
two-year contract, .Orville
Loe, secretary of the Sweet
Home local, said.
The men had been on strike
since June 27 for a 5-cent
hourly wage boost. The walk
out Idled some 1,400, closing
the Willamette National Lum
ber company sawmill and log
ging operations, the Santiam
Lumber company mill and
logging works, and the Snow
Peak Logging company.
Former contracts have been
for one year expiring April 1
First Contract in
Labor Dispute
Lebanon, Ore. U.R First
definite agreement to be reach
ed in the Lebanon-Sweet Home
wage dispute between the In
ternational Woodworkers
union and three lumber opera
tors in the area was signed at
11:30 a.m. today by the Snow
Peak Logging Co. for its La-
comb, Ore., operation.
The contract was the only
one actually signed so far in
the dispute but another meet
ing was scheduled for later to
day between IWA representa
tives and the Santiam Lumber
Co. for its mill in Lebanon.
PLANTING SEEDLINGS
Portland More than 800
acres of Mt. Hood national for
est logged-off lands were
planted with 496,500 seedUngs
in the past fiscal year, Suoer-
visor Lloyd Olson reported.
upon state lands being made
by federal agencies.
Fritz Snyaer of Colorado
spoke of a test case being
made In the state as to wheth
er Colorado is to have control
of the waters that originate
there or whether a federal
agency will take over.
Forrest Cooper, executive
secretary of the association,
Lakeview, Ore., stated that the
problem of access roads into
forest lands was one that is
common to all states. With
counties putting up a consid
erable share of the money ex
pended in access roads, Coop
er expressed the belief that
these counties should have
more say as to where the
roads should be built.
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GREEK NAVAL BASE TOWN REDUCED TO m"'Kooo
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Showers Seen
For Week-End
Scattered showers and pos
sible thunder showers are in
the offing over tonight and
Saturday to relieve the "heat
wave" of the past few days,
and lower temperatures are
due tomorrow, the weather
bureau states.
The five-day forecast out
Friday morning calls for low
ering temperatures following
scattered showers or thunder
showers over the week-end,
maximums to range between
75 and 85 degrees.
The mercury hit 92 degrees
again in Salem Thursday. On
tario took the honors for the
high maximum in Oregon,
Thursday, with 99 degrees.
Medford, which has had the
honors during the week, re
ported a high of 98 yesterday.
Roseburg registered a 95 de
gree mark, Eugene, 93. -From
Lebanon comes re
ports low humidity readings
all this week have forced shut'
downs at virtually all east
Lirm county logging opera.
Hons. East and northeast
"fire winds" accompanied the
low humidity. No fires have
been reported in that area and
aerial checks have been made
in the ' area throughout the
week.
Danger of forest fires con
tinued high in Oregon Friday
as hot weather clung to the
state.
Hope for Settlement
In Egypt Seen Today
Cairo, Egypt VP) Hopes for
a solution of the Anglo-Egyptian
dispute over the Suez
rose today after Vice Premier
Gamal Abdel Nasser said
Egypt is willing to make the
giant base available to the
west In an emergency.
Nasser said in an Interview
last night the west could use
the base providing Egyptian
sovereignty was honored. He
insisted that Egypt should
have the final say-so on when
non-Egyptian troops should be
admitted.
This point has been a major
factor blocking agreement
over evacuation of the 80,000
British troops now defending
the 104-mile waterway.
2 More Boys Die in
Mass. Refrigerator
Haverhill, Mass. UB Two
small boys were found suffo
cated Inside an abandoned Ice
box here late last night, the
third tragedy of its kind in 36
hours.
In a day and a half, unused
ice boxes have lured 11 curi
ous children to their death.
The latest- victims, whose
bodies were found just before
midnight, were Edward P.
Butchy Ferguson, 3, and Mich
ael T. Rogers, 4. A posse of
200 police, firemen and volun
teers had searched for four
hours before one searcher, Lu
cien Duval, 33, happened to
look in the Ice box in a Hav
erhill dump.
"I just got through reading
about those other children so I
decided to take a look," Duval
Mid.
QUAKE SHAKES TOKYO
Tokyo (UK An earthquake
shook Tokyo buildings for
three seconds Thursday but
there were no casualties.
journal
Friday, August 14, 1953
Argostolion, naval base and chief town on the Greek
Island of Kefallinia, presents a scene of destruction In
this low level air view. The shells of wrecked homes and
rubble fUled streets illustrate the devastation wrought
by the current series of earthquakes on Kefallinia and the
neighboring Ionian sea islands of Ithaca and Zakinthos,
(AP Wirephoto via radio from Athena)
Hospital Crumbled by
Quake, Patients Buried
Athens u. A new earth
quake crumbled a hospital on
the Island of Zante In the Ioni
an sea tnriay and buried a num
ber of patients injured In the
temblors of the past four days.
Destruction of the hospital
left only school, the national
bank and a church standing in
the capital city of Zante. Fire
swept the rest of the island.
For the fifth straight day
earthquakes shook Cephalonia
and Ithaca and flame reddened
smoke mushroomed from the
islands. .
Riots Flare in
Phone Strike
Indianapolis, Ind. u.R A
crowd of 150 persons rioted
outside one of the largest ex
changes of the strikebound In
diana Bell Telephone Co., last
night and early today, break
ing windows and hurling fire
crackers into two buildings at
South Bend.
The utility, plagued by a 24
day walkout of 6,900 CIO Com
munications Workers, evacuat
ed the buildings of 70 employes
who had kept long distance ser.
vice going since the strike be
gan. Long distance service was
halted in South Bend, a city of
120,000. fifth largest city in In
diana, and in an outlying area
populated by perhaps more
than 200,000 persons.
Police in West Lafayette,
home of Purdue University, re
ported an arson attempt on a
non-union phone worker's
home which threatened the
lives of a sleeping family In
cluding several small children.
Base on Okinawa
Digs in for Hurricane
Naha, Okinawa VP) This
great American island base
dug in Friday night for one of
the wildest typhoons ever re
corded in the Pacific, only a
few hours away.
The army ordered condition
1 alert at 10 p.m., 5 a.m. PST,
with the storm only about 12
hours away.
The typhoon's winds were
howling up to 184 miles per
hour.
The forward edge of the
howling storm, one of the
wildest ever recorded in this
part of the world, was about
200 miles southwest of this
island and was expected to hit
Saturday morning.
Marilyn Monroe Nearly
Drowns, Jasper Park
Jasper, Alta. U.R Marilyn
Monroe nursed a sprained an
kle today and thanked screen
hero Robert Mitchum for fish
ing her out of a river.
Miss Monroe was reported
to have narrowly escaped
drowning when she took a
plunge into the swift Maligne
river that wasn't in the script
of the film she is making in
Jasper National park.
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American and' British air
craft began a mighty mercy
airlift, piercing the billowing
smoKe to drop water to thirst
ing thousands who have sur
vived the series of earthquakes.
Unofficial estimates placed
the death toU at 1,000, but some
authorities considered the num
ber exaggerated. They said 400
bodies had been counted and at
least 100 more presumably
died.
"Ten minutes ago we had a
terrible shock," an American
Mutual Security Mission offi
cial said last night in broad
cast front Cephalonia. "I saw
a mountain sliding into the
sea."
The disaster was almost be
yond imagination. A U. S. Navy
rescue team that moved inland
from the Sixth Fleet flagship,
the cruiser U. S. S. Salem, mes
saged Vice Adm. John H. Cas-
sady aboard the vessel the de
struction was "terrifying, sick
ening and complete."
King Paul of Greece visited
the ruined cities of Argostolion
and Lixourl on Cephalonia. He
walked among the people, at
tempting to soothe them with
words of encouragement.
I Dead as Hurricane
Hurries up East Coast
New York (U.R) A howling
tropical hurricane smashed
along the Maryland coast today
and headed north with increas
ed speed toward the coastal ci
ties and heavily populated
beach resorts of New Jersey
and New York.
The storm left one dead in
North Carolina, raked across
the Norfolk, Va., area and was
centered this morning 35 miles
off the Maryland beach resort
of Ocean City.
The resort town was exacu-
ated as the storm appreached.
Winds in gusts up to 66 miles
per hour whipped waves 10
feet above the normal high
tide line as vacationers jammed
highways In a bumper to bum
per exodus.
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Long Island Braces for
Tornadk Winds Tonight
New York, OP) Eastern
Long Island braced itself Fri
day for winds of 40 to 60
miles expected to strike Fri
day night from the hurricane
moving up the Atlantic Coast.
A Weather Bureau advisory
said the season's first big hur
ricane was centered about 35
miles off Ocean City, Md., and
was expected to pass 40 miles
east of Atlantic City, N.J,
about 7 p.m. EST.
S h o r t ly after noon the
Weather Bureau issued this
capsule forecast for New York
City and surrounding areas:
New York City Strong
northeast winds Friday eve
ning, perhaps reaching occa
sional gale force 40 to 50 miles
an hour.
Long Island Rainy and
windy; strong winds at the
east end, up to gal and full
Split ver&-ssfc,
India in US Fdh
United Nations, N.Y,
Britain and some other West
era Allies were reported ready
Friday to go on the floor of
the U.N. General Assembly
with demand that Russia
and India be included In the
forthcoming Korean political
conference.
Will Continue
Food Giveaway
Berlin WV West Berlin's gov
ernment today abandoned plans
to halt its food distribution to
East Berliners for 11 days and
announced the giveaway would
continue without pause.
The city senate said the
American-sponsored parcels of
food would be given out daily
to all Soviet zone residents who
come for them. Earlier the
senate had planned to continue
supplying only East zoners
from outside Berlin and to hold
up distribution to East Berlin
ers beginning Sunday while the
program's faculties were reor
ganized. Since the venture started
July 27. almost 2tt million
parcels of lard, sugar, canned
milk and dried vegetables have
been given to Easterners. The
hungry braved tough Com
munist police controls and
coimtermeasures to smuggle the
coveted packages back home.
The senate denied reports.
published in America, that the
British and French had ob
jected to continuing the U. S.
financed program because of
fear of Russian reprisals. A
British spokesman also said he
knew nothing of any such ob
jection. . ......
A French official said: "Cer
tainly we've sot been too heart
ily in favor of the entire Idea,
but we've not protested about
It nor do we intend to.
French Strike
Slowly Easing
Paris UJ9 The communists
tried to Intensify waning
French strike enthusiasm to
day as thousands of workers
Ignored walkout orders, oth
ers straggled back to work.
and the government increased
its emergency measures to re
store order.
Speculators smuggled
watches nylons, gold and oth
er precious commodities across
uncontrolled border in an ef
fort to reap quick fortunes
In the disorder . which the
strike of 4,000,000 , union
workers hss brought
A communist brain trust
convened at party headquar
ters to map plans for concen
trated, widespread demonstra
tions next week to coincide
with the ninth anniversary of
the liberation of Paris.
Informed sources said this
effort was aimed at keeping
the current general strike
from petering out into easily
controlled walkouts, as the
government of Premier Joseph
Lanlel earnestly hopes will
happen.
No new strikes began today
and no important new strike
calls were issued as the coun
try started a week-end reli
gious and bank holiday in ob
servance of the Roman Catho
lic Feast of the Assumption.
gale force 40 to 60 miles an
hour.
New Jersey Strong to gale
force winds along the immedi
ate coast Friday evening, dim
inishing late Friday night
Connecticut Rain and
moderately strong winds.
The Weather Bureau said
precautions should be con
tinued for dangerous winds
snd high tides from Ocean
City, Md., northward along the
New Jersey coast. The north
east storm warnings from
Cape May, NJ.. to Cape Ann,
Mass., remained in effect '
Winds approaching gale
force already were buffeting
Atlantic City, NJ., and kicked
up a strong surf that pounded
the beaches at that resort
Heavy rain accompanied the
winds, and dangerously high
tides were expected.
F IN A L
CDITIOU
D
. Informed sources said the
split between the i United
States and Britain ever the
composition of the Korean
parley is much mora serious
than previously indicated. - .
The British are understood
to feel even mot strongly
about the question of Russian
participation than about the
possibility of India . beioc
given seat
The United States has in
dicated that the UN. side of
the conference should be re
stricted to the 16 countries
which fought under the UJ.
banner in Korea. i
As for Russia, the VS. po
sition is that the Soviet Union
may represent the Communist
side in the talks but should
not sit m a U.N. representa
tive. :- .,
The question of composition
has been debated behind the
scenes by the 18 UJf. Allies
in two long meetings without
any sign of an agreement.
As a result, the British are
understood to feel that if the
16 countries cannot agree on
the inclusion of Russia and
India a separate proposal, or
possibly two separata pro
posals, on these countries
should be put before rthe full
nation Assembly.
The British position is that
it is unrealistic to try to set
tle the Korean problem with
out the participation of Rus
sia, since Russia is closely
concerned with this and all
other Asian oueH...cj.
Earnings of !
Workers Up
Earnings of Oregon worker
in covered employment in
creased in 1951 over previous
years.
The Stat . Unemployment
Compensation Commission re
ported that more than, two
thirds of the 273,000 regular
workers employed by 18.000
firms earned more than $3,000
last year.
There were 268,170 who
worked irregularly and 122,480
failed to earn the $400 mini
mum required for eligibility to
unemployment insurance.
The number of . covered
workers with earnings averag
ing over $250 a month has in
creased steadily since first re
ports were made in 1942. Only
11.9 percent of the 195,700 re
gular workers in that first year
made $3,000.
In 1945, the proportion rot
to 33.9 percent and by 1948
it had reached 48.6 percent and
in 1951 it was up to 64.6 per
cent Last year 188,850 em
ployes, or 69.2 percent of those
working regularly, earned $3,
000 or more.
About 20 percent of both
regular and irregular worker
had wages in two or mora
main industry groups. For the
first time the number of those
miking more than $4,000 a
year broke into six figures
103.150. In 1942, only 6,850
were reported in this income
group, but by 1945 there were
22,750, end by 1948 there were r
50,360.
Salem Draws
State Money
Salem draws $124,587.62 In
the latest distribution of state
highway revenue money,
known as the state tax street
fund, which was made today
by Secretary of State Zarl T.
Newbry.
TTie distribution also in
cludes: Albany, $29,211.96; Corvil
11s, $46,805.56; Dallas, $13,
842.11; Eugene, $103, 617.97;
Lebanon, $16,961.13; McMlnn
ville, $19,161.77; New berg,
$11,395.98; Sheridan, 95550;
Sweet Home, $10,105.40.
The total apportionment In
the state is $2,136,134.79.
The amount represents 10
per cent of the net revnues to
the state highway fund during
the six months ended June 30,
from motor vehicle license
fees, gasoline taxes, motor car
rier fees and motor vehicle
violation fines. ;
CEYLON R."DS RIOT
Colombo, Ceylon un Th
Army was called out today by
Premier Dudley Senanayake
and volunteers were mobilized
to quell communist inspired
riots in which fly a person
have been killed and 69 in
jured In the past two days.
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